Tennis fans are in a frenzy after Eugenie Bouchard was granted a joker to play in the French Open. “data-reactid =” 32 “> Tennis fans are delirious afterwards Eugenie Bouchard was granted a joker to play in the French Open.
Tournament organizers announced Tuesday that Bouchard, Andy Murray and Tsvetana Pironkova had received wild cards for the clay court grand slam that begins later this month.
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Bouchard, who reached the French Open semi-finals in 2014, has played clay tournaments since the season restarted last month and made it to the Istanbul Open final where she lost in three sets on Sunday.
It was the Canadian’s first final in more than four years, however she lost at the tiebreaker in the third set.
She lost to eventual champion Maria Sharapova in the French Open semi-finals in 2014, the same year she reached the Wimbledon final.
That year, the 26-year-old rose to world number 5, but has struggled with consistency ever since.
His run to the Istanbul final saw his ranking climb from 272 to 167.
Fans were also over the moon at the prospect of seeing Bouchard in action in a grand slam.
Wildcard RG for Genie !! ????????????????
– Baehme Bouchard (@GenieArmy_KY) September 14, 2020
Referable from ????????
And Genie Bouchard has reason to celebrate with an imaginative dessert or two, as she just earned a wild card at the French Open after her stellar final performance at the Istanbul tennis championship this week ???????? #thegist https://t.co/pT7iiiAIFO
– The GIST Canada (@thegistnewsca) September 14, 2020
Well done Geni .. you worked hard physically and now your mind game is coming Believe in yourself and trust you can “just do it” .. making Canada proud
– M Matuz (@MikeMatuzic) September 14, 2020
Good for her .. she played well last week. Looks fit. If she stays focused and healthy, she can make some noise.
– Rocco (@ 59roccom) September 14, 2020
Excellent choices!
Wimbledon must take note of an award for them too, when the time comes.
– Loli (@LoliLondon) September 15, 2020
Bouchard comeback after a sad decline
tennis, with fans and trolls constantly pointing to her social media activity as to why she’s suffered such a dramatic decline." data-reactid="55">Bouchard is one of the most criticized female players in tennis, with fans and trolls constantly pointing to her social media activity as to why she has suffered such a dramatic decline.
tennis.comlately. “data-reactid =” 57 “>” I just don’t appreciate the opinions of people who are out there just judging what I have posted “, Bouchard said in an interview with tennis.com recently.
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Eugenie Bouchard in action at the 2019 French Open (photo by MARTIN BUREAU / AFP via Getty Images)
“It has affected the way I act a little. Maybe I’m just getting more mature and I’m like, “Look, I’m not posting ass pictures every day.”
The 26-year-old said she has learned to live with criticism and tries to block haters.
“I’ve crossed the whole spectrum of people who love you. When everything is going great, people love you. When everything goes wrong, people hate you, “he said.
“I’ve crossed that wave so many times. It just sucks. People think social media is an accurate representation of your day when it’s not. “
Murray and Pironkova also get wildcards
Former world number 1 Murray, a finalist at Roland Garros in 2016, was also handed a wildcard at the US Open last month, where he reached round two in his first grand slam following last year’s hip surgery. .
The Brit was the only non-French of eight male players to be granted a free pass to the main draw of the clay court grand slam.
He did two rounds in New York, and improved to 110th in the standings, but still too low for the French Open when he released the list of entrants to the main draw.
Bulgarian Pironkova, who surprised the field at the US Open when she reached the quarterfinals in her first tournament in three years after a maternity break, has also been admitted as a wild card in the main draw of Roland Garros.
Pironkova’s best result at Roland Garros was the quarter-finals in 2016.
The French Open, originally scheduled for May-June, was postponed to September 27-October 11 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
